LoJack® System Helps Baltimore City Police Department Recover Stolen Honda Accord
- February 23, 2016
- recovery stories
The owners of a 2007 Honda Accord contacted the Baltimore City Police Department to report that their vehicle was stolen during an armed carjacking from the 3800 block 3rd Street in Baltimore City. The Baltimore City PD Radio dispatched a Southern District officer to investigate the incident. The officer quickly arrived on location, interviewed the complainant and surveyed the area for the subject Honda. When the officer was unable to locate the Honda a stolen vehicle report was prepared. The Baltimore City PD verified the theft and entered the vehicle information into the state and federal crime computers which automatically activated the LoJack® System concealed in the Honda.
A short while later detectives from the Regional Auto Theft Team picked up the silent LoJack signal from the stolen Honda with the LoJack Police Tracking Computers (PTC) that are installed in their patrol vehicles and helicopters. Following the directional and audible cues from the PTC, the officers tracked the Honda to the 2500 block W. Franklin Street in the West Baltimore area of Baltimore City. At that location, officers observed the Honda parked and unoccupied. Detectives at this point maintained a surveillance of the Honda and after a period of time a suspect returned to the vehicle and attempted to leave the area. The Honda was stopped and the robbery suspect taken into custody. Recovered from the suspect at the time of arrest was a handgun and evidence linking him to another carjacking that day in the northwest Baltimore area of Baltimore City. The investigation is ongoing.
The LoJack® System was installed in the 2007 Honda Accord in July 2010 at Paragon Honda in Woodside, New York.